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Install Node.js on Ubuntu

The official instructions say to download and run a script with sudo, which should sound scary. So I went through the script and wrote up what it is doing.

It's actually fine to run, but it's not much harder to do it all yourself.

Add the key

curl https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key > key
sudo apt-key add key

You can then rm key or have a peek at the key file contents if you're curious (curiousity is good).

Add the package sources

Use lsb_release -c -s to check if your distro is trusty, if not, replace trusty in the commands below.

You can also replace node_8.x with node_6.x for Node 6.

Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list, containing the following:

deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x trusty main
deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x trusty main

Update packages and install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
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